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Die letzte sowjetische Künstlerin
In Armenien, Georgien und Kirgistan, in den russischen Teilrepubliken Dagestan und Inguschetien, in Belarus und Russland begibt sich Victoria Lomasko mit ihren Reisereportagen auf die Suche danach, was aus dem sowjetischen Erbe geworden ist. Sie verbindet dabei äußere Ereignisse mit persönlichen Empfindungen und Kommentaren und beschreibt die gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozesse in den ehemaligen Sowjetrepubliken: den Kampf für die Rechte von Frauen und LGBTQ-Personen in zutiefst patriarchalen Gesellschaften, die schmerzhaften Nachwirkungen ethnischer Zwangsumsiedlungen unter Stalin, den finalen Wandel von Putins totalitärem Regime zu einer Diktatur. Durch ihre einzigartige künstlerische Form des Dokumentierens führt Lomasko Wahrnehmung und Erfahrung zusammen und erzeugt so Bilder für eine ungesehene Gegenwart, über die derzeit vielleicht nur im anonymisierenden Medium der Zeichnung adäquat berichtet werden kann.
- GenresGraphic Novels
288 pages, Paperback
Published March 23, 2023
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October 8, 2022
"Al poble de la vora, Tróitskoie, no vaig aconseguir trobar russos. En aquest antic campament cosac els monuments eren l'únic record de l'època soviètica. Vaig preguntar als ingúixos per què no els havien tret. 'No són els monuments els qui ens van deportar, germaneta', em van respondre. Els nassos de les esculures, però, estaven trencats." (Lomasko: 145).
This book is a collection of drawings by Victoria Lomasko of her time in some post-Soviet countries and Russian regions. Together with these drawings, an accompanying text is included to provide some context and explanation, which is great, as her drawings are not always that much detailed.
Some drawings reminded me of those engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that allowed people to see distant paintings or monuments that otherwise would have not been seen because cameras were not available yet and travelling was expensive. This is why I wish the book had had more drawings of landscapes and more full-page drawings. In the same way as Alice Neel or Annie Swynnerton already did, Victoria Lomasko brings ordinary people and activists into her portraits.
The book is a celebration of the role of the artist and the art of drawing. Unlike Paul Gauguin, who brought to a nineteenth-century French audience an unreal image of an unkwown Oceania, Victoria Lomasko brings a real image of all these territories that are close geographically but feel so distant to many Western Europeans. And this is brilliant.
This book is a collection of drawings by Victoria Lomasko of her time in some post-Soviet countries and Russian regions. Together with these drawings, an accompanying text is included to provide some context and explanation, which is great, as her drawings are not always that much detailed.
Some drawings reminded me of those engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that allowed people to see distant paintings or monuments that otherwise would have not been seen because cameras were not available yet and travelling was expensive. This is why I wish the book had had more drawings of landscapes and more full-page drawings. In the same way as Alice Neel or Annie Swynnerton already did, Victoria Lomasko brings ordinary people and activists into her portraits.
The book is a celebration of the role of the artist and the art of drawing. Unlike Paul Gauguin, who brought to a nineteenth-century French audience an unreal image of an unkwown Oceania, Victoria Lomasko brings a real image of all these territories that are close geographically but feel so distant to many Western Europeans. And this is brilliant.
March 7, 2024
El libro es interesante para acercarte a realidades que quedan muy lejanas de la europa occidental pero que es necesario conocerlas. Aún asi no me ha acabado de atrapar. El estilo gráfico es correcto.
August 4, 2023
Molt interessant la visió d’algunes repúbliques post-soviètiques pre i postpandèmiques. Gràcies àlex per aquest regal!
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